New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon—and add another 15,000 cars' worth every year
In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural carbon sinks: those primarily ...
A complex task: Carbon sequestration in marshes depends on many variables
While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the plant, including water, other organisms and soil conditions, influences how ...
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Sinking in Saltwater: Maine’s coastal marshes at risk as sea levels rise
Between 28 and 57 percent of the state’s coastal marshes could disappear by the end of the century, victims of a rising sea, ...
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Population Increases of Planthoppers on Fertilized Salt-Marsh Cord Grass May Be Prevented by Grasshopper Feeding
https://doi.org/10.2307/3495244 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495244 We fertilized four separate areas of salt-marsh cord grass, Spartina alterniflora, in ...
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SAVING DIAMONDBACK TERRAPINS
With diamond-patterned shells and speckled skin, these stunning turtles are a keystone species in the salt marshes and mangroves where they live. They help keep these ecosystems healthy by eating ...